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52 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Q« What was your relationship with your brother? A* Before his death my mother asked me to watch over him to stop him. We became close. When he killed himself, I was almost paralyzed. I had no desire to do anything. My brother's death set a seal on my being a Communist. I was one before, but I became a fanatical one afterward. I guess I became spiritually closer to him after his death.
The defense needed to show that Chambers was too great a liar to be believed. Chambers admitted that he had used at least eleven aliases. He had used the name Breen for his passport and when he lived in Smithtown. He had changed his child's name to Ursula and his wife's name to Edna. He admitted that he had lied on his application for the government job. He admitted that when he first told about Communists in the government, he didn't say anything about Hiss meeting Bykov in New York.
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